"Our Constitutional Duty is Clear"

The Investigation

ABC News

News, Politics

3.6 • 739 Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2019

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of The Investigation, presidential candidate and US Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) talks about why he's ratcheting up calls for Trump's impeachment, even though it continues to be a contentious topic with his colleagues in the House and fellow 2020 contenders. "We spend too much time in this party debating the politics of impeachment, when the law is very clear and our constitutional duty is clear," Moulton says, explaining why he thinks that skimming over the topic in the lead up to the general election would be "a mistake," and why he believes that Robert Mueller's pending appearance on Capitol Hill could be a game changer. Later, the ABC team forecasts what to expect from Mueller's testimony and analyzes the political roadblocks facing congressional democrats who want to launch impeachment proceedings against Trump.

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0:00.0	Welcome to The Investigation. I'm Chris Blasto, senior executive producer here at ABC News,
0:11.6	and I'm joined by my colleagues John Santucci and Matt Mosk, who are the lead reporters on the Trump investigation.
0:18.5	Joining us today is Congressman Seth Moulton, who's also running for president,
0:23.5	and he is an outspoken voice calling for impeachment of the president,
0:28.8	not only about the Mueller investigation, but also about other things that the president has done.
0:34.6	It's not a moral, a political question.
0:39.3	It's a moral command. It's not a decision. It's not a more political question. It's a moral command. It's not a decision.
0:41.3	It's a duty.
0:42.3	It's our job.
0:44.3	And it's high time we do it.
0:47.3	So let us not become bystanders to our own history, but lead with courage and do what's right.
0:56.6	Thank you for joining us, Congressman.
0:58.6	The Mueller testimony got delayed this week, but it seems like a lot of the air has come out of that balloon.
1:06.1	Do you think so?
1:07.1	Has the country lost interest in that?
1:09.5	Well, I don't know, but I don't care because we spend too much time in this party debating the politics of impeachment.
1:17.0	When the law is very clear and our constitutional duty is clear, this is a debate that we need to have because it's simply the right thing to do.
1:25.8	And that's why I voted for it way back in December of 2017,
1:29.2	before any other candidate in this presidential race. Because at some point, we just have to recognize
1:34.5	that doing the right thing matters more than polls or politics. I even noticed that during the
1:40.0	two Democratic debates a couple weeks ago, impeachment and Mueller were hardly mentioned.
1:46.6	It almost was an afterthought.
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